NME — Online countdown teasing Prophets Of Rage announcement more info

Consequence of Sound — Three-fourths of RATM, Chuck D, and B-Real come together as Prophets of Rage. more info

TMZ — NFL star Josh Gordon just got an offer he should probably refuse (or should he?) from a huge rapper who says he can assist the troubled WR with his weed problem ...  by helping him beat the NFL drug test. We got Cypress Hill frontman B-Real… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Eugene Mirman @ EMCF 2015 (more by David Andrako) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Eugene Mirman, Derrick Brown, H. Jon Benjamin @ Bell House This is... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Rudy Rubio Snoop Dogg / Modest Mouse / The Dwarves / swingers Chicago represent! The Dwarves started here before packing up and taking its pure punk to California. In keeping with the retro vibe, the band performed, in... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Cypress Hill's 2014 Halloween-time show in NYC (more by Mathieu Bredeau) Cypress Hill are playing Riot Fest Chicago this weekend, and in late October they'll go on their annual Halloween-time tour. Their show on Halloween proper is in Asbury..... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Illmind & Joell Ortiz Plenty of great hip hop shows in NYC are getting announced all the time. We don't get a chance to write about all of them, so here's a roundup of some recently-announced stuff... more info

Stereogum — Perry Farrell’s inaugural Lollapalooza festival-tour launched in the summer of 1991, and it returned every year till 1997, after which it went on hiatus for a while. The last “classic” Lollapalooza lineup, though, came in 1995, when the tour fe... more info

Mercury News, California — The festival has been growing and is now ready to compete against major festival with lineup that also includes Cypress Hill, SOJA, Dilated Peoples. more info

Stereogum — In honor of today’s… err… holiday, Spotify has compiled a list of all of the songs most frequently included on 4/20-themed playlists, along with a few other fun facts. According to Spotify, 75 percent of the 40,000+ 4/20 playlists on the site w... more info